Fortinet Expands Its Secure Networking Portfolio to Further Drive the Convergence of Networking and Security

Fortinet, the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security,  announced the FortiGate 90G, the first Secure SD-WAN appliance and NGFW with the new security processing unit 5 (SP5) ASIC that delivers industry-leading AI-powered threat protection performance, scalability, and power
efficiency at a cost-effective price. This new addition to Fortinet’s Secure Networking portfolio expands the company’s ability to deliver consistent security, unified management, analytics, and FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services across the entire hybrid network.

The new FortiGate 90G series of next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) delivers enterprise- grade secure networking capabilities, such as hybrid mesh firewall, SD-WAN, and SD- Branch, to distributed edges. FortiGate 90G is also the foundation for customers’ SASE and zero-trust journey to enable secure internet access, secure private access and secure SaaS access.
FortiGate 90G is fully integrated with FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services, providing advanced intrusion prevention for deep packet inspection of SSL/TLS traffic, web security services, such as DNS and URL filtering for blocking of access to malicious domains and URLs, and content security, such as inline sandboxing to stop zero-day and other file-based threats.

This new suite of firewalls is the first to ship with the SP5 ASIC, Fortinet’s fifth-generation ASIC technology announced earlier this year with the ability to accelerate and concurrently run 2x more applications—for example, NGFW, zero-trust network access (ZTNA), SD-WAN, and SSL inspection—compared to the previous generation.
The power of FortiGate 90G with Fortinet’s SP5 ASIC and FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services is showcased in the below Security Compute Rating table, which compares the top firewalls on the market against the target performance numbers of the FortiGate 90G series:

Availability: FortiGate 90G is available now.
Empowering Today’s Hybrid World by Converging Networking and Security Growing and scaling digital business while protecting a distributed infrastructure and supporting a hybrid workforce has never been more critical or complex. That’s why Fortinet’s Secure Networking portfolio converges networking technologies with FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services across all edges to close security gaps and
help organizations achieve a better user experience.

Today’s news reinforces Fortinet’s commitment to continue to expand and integrate key secure networking technologies across the following areas:

 Hybrid mesh firewall for data center and cloud

 Secure SD-WAN for branch offices

 SASE for remote users and branch offices

 Universal ZTNA for remote users and campus locations

 WLAN/LAN for branch offices and campus locations